At this point in the project, I found out that Broken Coast Raids was being moved up to June rather than going down in September. I knew that there was no way we were going to pull off a Broken Coast Themed event in June, so I gave up for a little while. I almost chucked the entire project. However, I decided to give it another go about a week later. My main problem was figuring out how to plank the sides of the ship without having to do the thing where you wet balsa wood and then bend it. I know I don't have the skill or the patience to do that!
As you can see, I had made some decent progress by this point. It almost is starting to look like a ship, or rather a section of a ship. Never meant to be the whole ship, as you know. Just a part of it. Anyway, I finished planking the entire deck in a flurry of activity one Sunday.
New additions included:
- Flags. I used think dowel rods shoved directly into the foam. The flags are plastic flags stolen from a Spiderman Daily Bugle Lego set.
- Rear Vents: This series of three vents is simply a Sugar-Free Peeps container turned upside down and glued in place.
- Reinforced Metal Grating on Deck: These are Lemax Plaza sections which come in squares. I glued a few of them into place and will paint them to simulate metal sheets.
- Side Railing on Elevated deck: These are plastic toy ladders turned on end and glued into place. They look okay.
- Gargoyles: These are LEMAX Halloween Graveyard Gargoyles. Nice decorations for eye candy.
- The Mast: This is several of the aforementioned wooden shower curtain hooks glued in place. I them ran another thin dowel rod down through the center of them. I then cut a hole in a 1" diameter wooden circle sign from Michaels Craft Store to act as a makeshift crows nest platform.
- The Rigging: It's plastic rigging from the Pirates of the Caribbean Deluxe Black Pearl set.
- The Mast Boom is also from the Black Pearl set.
- I added a hatch in the center of the deck. This is a Warhammer 40k Cities of Death building piece that has a hatch built into it.
- I added walkways on the sides of the ship, and these are again pieces from the 40k Cities of Death building sets.
More to come!
